2002: Two pilots found guilty of “gross negligence” by the Ministry of Defence after the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter crash, in which 29 people died, were cleared by a specially constituted House of Lords committee.

2004: Twenty-three Chinese people drowned when a group of 35 cockle-pickers were trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies were recovered.

2008: A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States left 57 dead, the most since the 1985 outbreak that killed 88.